#16th century illustrations

[costumedump]

A Man With His Head In His Chest From The Islands In the Indian Ocean

Zakariya ibn Muhammad al-Qazwini, Book Of Wonders And Oddities

Istanbul, 1553

Reinventing the Américas: Construct. Erase. Repeat

[cy-lindric]

Queen Margot

[weirdlookindog]

LVCIFER

engraved by Cornelis Galle I (1576-1650), c. 1591-1650

after Lodovico Cigoli (1559-1613)

[dot-moth]

de zombie cleo corporis fabrica (on the structure of a zombie cleo)

[cuties-in-codices]

cute sun

in an alchemical-medical manuscript ("Hausbuch des Pfarrers Valentinus aus Ottrau"), germany, 1529

source: Kassel, Universitätsbibliothek, 4° Ms. chem. 82, fol. 21r

[eliotbaum]

Cover for the upcoming TTRPG, The Hidden Isle! art by me and @vivtanner.

Embark on a Tarot adventure! Wield magic and fight tyranny across the Renaissance world in this TTRPG powered by card divination. Sign up to get notified of its Kickstarter launch, coming in the fall of 2023.

[upennmanuscripts]

LJS 64 is a book of diagrams, many with moving parts, designed to accompany the work Theoricae novae planetarum by 15th-century Austrian Georg von Peurbach, who is considered one of the first modern astronomers. He was particularly interested in simplifying the Ptolemic system (which places the Earth in the center of the solar system). The diagrams in the book demonstrate increasingly complex planetary motion.

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LJS 64 was recently featured in #CoffeeWithACodex, you can watch the complete 30 minute video here:

[himmelgrauart]

'Fire' | Landsknecht aesthetic

[arthistoryanimalia]

For #GuineaPigAppreciationDay, the two earliest examples I've found of guinea pigs in the European visual record:

1. Painting attributed to Giovanni da Udine, n.d., artist active early 1500s to death in 1564

2. Drawing from the Felix Platter album, collected sometime between 1546-54

Attributed to Giovanni da Udine (Italian, 1487–1564) Head of a Guinea Pig oil on canvas laid on panel 6.5 x 7 in. (16.5 x 17.8 cm.) From Duke's Fine Art Auction catalog, 11th April 2013, Lot 215

Drawing collected by Felix Platter, to be used in Gessner's Historiae animalium. The drawings were made by several artists, mostly anonymous, and were collected between 1546 and 1558 (this one must date to no later than 1554 as it served as a reference for Gessner's woodcut published that year). Bijzondere collectie Universiteit van Amsterdam collection.

[pencake07]

Sooo I watched the spider-verse movie and because I'm me I had to draw a historically inspired spiderperson :)

[beatrack92]

Tudor Love 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩 🏳️‍🌈

[heaveninawildflower]

Botanical illustrations and a snail (between 1520 and 1530) taken from a herbal. BnF Français 12322, f.139r

Wikimedia.

[disease]

CORNELIS GALLE THE ELDER “LVCIFER” // circa 1590-1600 [engraving on paper | 275 x 200 mm.]

[tygerland]

Michelangelo Detail - c. 1536 - from The Last Judgement on altar wall of the Sistine Chapel.

[jeannepompadour]

Códice de Trajes, costumes from the realms of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain, made in Germany in mid 16th century (1540s-1550s)

Prussia

Prussia and Friesland

Schwabia and Elzach

Juelich

Frisia

Germany

German dance

[cuties-in-codices]

solar eclipses

in an astronomical book forecasting all solar and lunar eclipses between 1554 and 1599, bavaria, 1555

source: Munich, BSB, Cod.icon. 181, fol. 41r, 52r and 45r